Around the Blogosphere This Week

Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet...

...The Warner Archive Collection will have a shorter list of Blu-ray releases in February than usual, but there are some great titles: TARZAN AND HIS MATE (1934), STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR (1940), and MOGAMBO (1953), please LOOPY DE LOOP: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION, a two-disc set of four dozen Hanna-Barbera cartoons. WAC expects to resume a larger slate of releases in March.

...Season 6 of the delightful series ALL CREATURES GREAT & SMALL comes to DVD and Blu-ray on March 3rd.

...Coming from TCM and Running Press in April: FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT MENUS: RECIPES & FILMS FOR UNFORGETTABLE TIMES TOGETHER by Leonard and Jessie Maltin.

...A reboot of THE ROCKFORD FILES? Just say no...

...Among the titles coming to Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection in April: TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932) and POINT BLANK (1967), plus an Eclipse collection of films directed by Kinuyo Tanaka.

...JUMBO, by Scott Bateman, about the Boeing 747, looks interesting. It's coming out in February.

...Having enjoyed a few Jean Gabin films directed by Gilles Grangier in recent months, I'm excited about an upcoming release from Kino Lorber, MAIGRET SEES RED (1963). It will be out on March 17th.

...A roundup of recent reviews: Dennis Seuling of The Digital Bits has reviewed the new Warner Archive Blu-rays IT'S LOVE I'M AFTER (1937) and THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D. (1941)...CineSavant Glenn Erickson reviews the new Criterion Collection release of CAPTAIN BLOOD (1935)...Rachel has written about YOU'VE GOT MAIL (1998) at Hamlette's Soliloquy...Toni Ruberto has written about the fun sci-fi film THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957) for Classic Movie Hub...and Denise of Mousesteps reviews the new Leslie Iwerks documentary DISNEYLAND HANDCRAFTED (2026), which will debut on Disney+ next week.

...Speaking of Disneyland history, here's an interesting title coming in April from Princeton University Press: DISNEYLAND AND THE RISE OF AUTOMATION: HOW TECHNOLOGY CREATED THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH by Roland Betancourt. (Via Keith Buczak.)

...On February 7th I'll be attending a sold-out D23 25th anniversary celebration of Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Hotel.  A Walt Disney Imagineering panel discussion will be followed later in the day by a dessert party with reserved seating at the World of Color show. (It's been 15 years since I went to another special World of Color showing.)

...Raquel Stecher's latest list of upcoming classic film books has just been posted at her site Out of the Past. Titles which caught my eye included HITCHCOCKIAN THRILLERS: MUST-SEE FILMS IN THE STYLE OF THE SUSPENSE MASTER by Stephen Rebello for Bloomsbury, STEVE COCHRAN: BAD BOY OF HOLLYWOOD by Michelangelo Capua for University Press of Mississippi, and JOHNNY GUITAR by by Brooks E. Hefner for the Reel West series from the University of New Mexico Press.

...Back in 2020 I reviewed 3-D Rarities, Vol. II, which included the film SWORD OF GRANADA (1953). Volume III is on the way thanks to Kickstarter funding.

...Attention Southern Californians: Next weekend, January 24th, John Ford's THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE (1962) will be screened in 35mm at The Autry. The film will be introduced by our daughter's former USC cinema professor, Dr. Drew Casper.

...For additional recent links of interest to classic film fans, please visit my January 10th column.

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